Despite all of the claims of TACO and so forth, declaring victory and retreating from the Middle East would be the best possible outcome for the United States.
The Iranian regime wants to pocket $1million for each ship that passes through the reopened Strait of Hormuz for two weeks, while the US and Iran negotiate a peace deal, regional officials have claimed.
President Donald Trump announced last night that Iran has agreed to a two-week ceasefire and will reopen the crucial waterway, while a ten-point peace plan is considered by both sides.
The exact terms of the deal have not been revealed. Trump told Sky News this morning: ‘They are very good points – and most of them have been fully negotiated. If it isn’t good, we’ll go right back to it very easily.’
However, earlier, an unnamed regional official told the Associated Press that Iran wants to charge tolls of up to $1million on ships that pass through the Strait during the two-week period.
The ten-point plan also says that the US should accept Tehran’s continued control over the Strait, recognise its right to uranium enrichment, lift all sanctions, pay compensation, and withdraw all troops from the region.
Iran would then use the money it raises for reconstruction following the weeks-long conflict.
On Tuesday, Trump described the deal as ‘total and complete victory.’
IRAN’S 10-POINT PEACE PLAN
- Commitment to non-aggression
- Iran’s control over the Strait of Hormuz
- Acceptance of Iran’s uranium enrichment
- Lifting of all primary sanctions
- Lifting of all secondary sanctions
- Termination of all UN Security Council resolutions
- Termination of all Board of Governors resolutions
- Paying compensation to Iran
- Withdrawal of US combat forces from the region
- Cessation of war on all fronts, including in Lebanon
Is it a victory? Of course not, in the strategic sense. The war with Iran was unwinnable, just as was the case with Ukraine, Afghanistan, and Iraq. But it was objectively a comprehensive military victory on the battlefield for US forces, which has rather usefully served to point out the limitations of military power to the rabid Zionist imperialists who now have a much better grasp of the fact that their influence over the US government and its military guarantees them nothing in the Middle East or elsewhere, even if they haven’t accepted it.
Mark Levin is currently on air with shaking and crying over the ceasefire with Iran: “The people of Iran!! Are we going to just leave them there? There’s nothing we can do, and we’re going to wash our hands over that? That to me is morally very difficult to accept!”
Yes. Levin should be relieved, because if the USA was the Middle East morality police, invading Israel, ending the genocide, and liberating Gaza on behalf of the Palestinians would be its top priority, followed by ejecting the IDF from southern Lebanon. Leaving the Middle East to its own devices would be a real victory for the American people, who have sufficient challenges of their own inside their own borders to resolve. So let’s hope the ceasefire between the USA and Iran holds, even if the one between Israel and Iran almost certainly won’t. This two-week ceasefire is a good sign, but it definitely doesn’t mean the war is over and AIPAC will be working overtime to try to overturn it.
According to Iranian officials, Pakistan has conveyed that the U.S. has accepted these principles as a basis for negotiations despite its public posture. Based on this, Iran agreed to a two-week negotiation period in Islamabad. It is emphasized that this does not mean the war has ended, and Iran will only accept a full end to the conflict once all terms of its proposal are finalized.